Last Updated on Monday, 20 December 2010 12:25
Written by Arutz7
Monday, 20 December 2010 12:20

Israeli police arrested a 14 year old boy from Druze village Usafia after admitting to accidently stating Israel's most devastating fire ever. Apparently the boy threw a piece of burning coal into the forest after smoking a hookah. Seeing the fire starting to ignite scared him and he ran back to school too frightened to tell anyone about the incident.

Last Updated on Sunday, 12 December 2010 18:10
Written by by Alan Taylor
Sunday, 12 December 2010 17:32

December 5th, Israeli authorities said that they had finally gained control of a raging four-day wildfire in the Carmel Forest near the city of Haifa, Israel. The fire was the worst in Israel's history, consuming about 10,000 acres of forest and about four million trees. Israeli responders were helped by an international fleet of more than 30 firefighting aircraft and ground personnel from more than 16 countries. At least 42 people were killed and more than 17,000 residents evacuated. Two suspects have now been arrested and stand accused of negligently setting the blaze. Collected here are images from the recent wildfires around Haifa, and those caught up in the disaster.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 December 2010 15:02
Written by by Jeff Bessen / LIHerald
Wednesday, 08 December 2010 14:50

Lawrence-Cedarhurst firefighters James McHugh, left, and Capt. Anthony Rivelli used a thermal imaging camera to locate the upstairs occupant during last Friday’s fire.

Two firefighters from the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department rescued a 61-year-old man from a fire in a two-story, two-family house at 136 Prospect Ave. in Woodmere on Dec. 3. While other firefighters battled the fire and searched for other possible victims, the pair ascended the stairs and fought through clutter and smoke to save the upstairs resident.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 December 2010 13:57
Written by JNEWS
Tuesday, 07 December 2010 11:13

A police officer from Cyprus, working to fight the fire in the Carmel, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday afternoon that 80% of the blaze has been contained, as three helicopters from Switzerland prepared to land in the area.

Public Security Minister Aharonovitch updated Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday afternoon, saying “we are approaching the end; there is almost full control over the fires.”

Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 October 2010 08:20
Written by NY1
Wednesday, 06 October 2010 08:13

Investigators with the New York City Fire Department say an electric griddle is to blame for last week's deadly three-alarm fire in Brooklyn.
They say the griddle was left on, igniting a wooden counter in the kitchen at a home on Avenue P in Midwood Wednesday night.
Avigdor Krasny, 8, was trapped by the flames and pronounced dead at the hospital.
Three other boys and two girls were pulled from the fire and taken to the hospital.
Four firefighters suffered minor injuries.

A father heroically ran into his burning Brooklyn home multiple times and rescued five of his children Thursday night — but tragically couldn't reach an 8-year-old boy trying to escape the flames through a third-floor window.

“I saw the boy hanging out of the window screaming as firefighters started to rescue him,” said a neighbor, David Cohen.